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Thursday, August 7
Friday, August 8
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Monday, August 11
Tuesday, August 12
Wednesday, August 13
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Thursday, August 7, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Cutter Living Room.
Come learn about the PhD program at Smith from current Doctoral students. The meeting will be an open forum for MSW students to ask questions about the ins and outs of getting a Ph.D. at Smith.
Thursday, August 7, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Campus Center Room 103.
Sarita Bhalotra, Ph.D., who is a Senior Bertha Reynolds Fellow and an expert on health care policy, will talk to us and help us talk to each other about health care and the disparities in the U.S. health care system. Join Dr. Sarita Bhalotra for an informal discussion about national health policy, its causes, consequences, and possible solutions. Bring your lunch and join us. “The health care needs of the American public are vastly different than they were a century ago. A rapidly aging population, technology, a fragmented delivery system, multiple funding streams, competing ideologies, lifestyle, and environmental context, are among the factors that contribute to escalating costs while leaving many Americans with inadequate or no access to healthcare, variable quality, and persistent racial and ethnic disparities.” -Sarita Bhalotra, Ph.D.
Thursday, August 7, 7:00 pm, Talbot Living Room (dorm across from Capen).
Please join Amy Basford as she presents her thesis on the application and adaptation of testimonial psychotherapy to be used with communities of color in the United States to address the effects of racism-based psychosocial traumatic stress. The colloquium will be interactive and community focused. The evening will be moderated by Josh Miller. Snacks provided.
Friday, August 8, 12:00 - 2:00 pm, Cutter Head Resident Suite.
Eliza Strode, LICSW and 1997 SCSSW MSW grad, will speak about working with Mayan women's cooperatives in Guatemala and Fair Trade -- It's all social work! Come learn about opportunities to volunteer and to learn Spanish through immersion programs in Guatemala. Eliza is also open to discussing the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program, which paid all of her BA and MSW student loans.
Friday, August 8, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Cutter Living Room.
Feel like you haven't learned enough about self psychology because it comes last in the history of theory and in syllabi? Would you like to learn more about trauma theory's recommendations for treatment with the trauma survivor? Please come and offer me your critical feedback on how I see self psychological principles in Herman's Trauma and Recovery. Bring your lunch, and don't let running behind keep you from joining me. I want all the feedback I can get! Handouts will be provided for future reference.
Friday, August 8, 4:00 pm, Talbot House Living Room .
Are you a re-evaluation counselor or are you interested in learning more about RC (also known as co-counseling)? Join us for a gathering of people in the hopes of fostering an RC community here at Smith College SSW.
We will do a brief introduction to RC theory and practice, offer RC resources in your area, and create a vision for how to use this excellent tool as a community next summer. Contact Eliza Schiffrin (eschiffr@email.smith.edu) or Christie Schler (clschler@yaoo.com) if you have any questions and/or would like to come, but can't.
Friday, August 8, 4:00 - 8:00 pm, Museum of Art.
Come have some fun at the Museum, free to all. From 4:00 - 6:00 pm enjoy a self-guided gallery activity: Children and adults are invited to explore the Museum! Meet in the lobby (ages 4+ with adult). From 4:00 - 6:00 pm The Cunningham Center will be open so please stop by. At 6:00 pm Author Pamela Thompson will speak about the painting that inspired her latest novel, "Every Past Thing."
Sunday, August 10, 9:45 am, leaving from Cutter-Ziskind.
Come learn about the utopian vision of the early social workers of the abolitionist movement here in Northampton. We'll leave at 9:45am from Cutter-Ziskind and carpool to the Sojourner Truth Memorial Statue where the tour begins. If you have a car and are willing to drive, please email ldtaylor@email.smith.edu. Brought to you by the Council for Students of Color.
Sunday, August 10, 7:00 pm, Helen Hills Chapel.
All members of the Smith SSW community are invited to join the graduating class for an evening of readings, ritual, music, and dance that expresses the meaning of our experience here. There will be chances for group singing. Please join us for this beautiful ritual! Members of the graduating class are also invited to a post-ceremony reception in Davis Ballroom.
Monday, August 11, 5:30 pm, Cutter Living Room.
Are you a first year student who would like to know more about class registration? Come learn about the challenges and strategies of registering for your classes. An information session led by 2nd year students. Open to all students.
Monday, August 11, 7:30 pm, Seelye 201.
Join us to screen and discuss this film about the unexpected friendship between two women- one obese, the other anorexic. We welcome all shapes and sizes. Sponsored by Size Matters.
Tuesday, August 12, 6:00 - 7:00 pm, Cutter Living Room.
This is a meeting for all 2nd years who will be working on the thesis project during the 08-09 academic year. The thesis advising assignments will be distributed. The schedule for those local advisors who want to meet their new advisees during lunch either Wednesday, August 13th or Thursday, August 14th will be announced and posted. Jean LaTerz, Thesis Coordinator, will briefly review some “tips” for surviving the thesis process.
Wednesday, August 13, 12:45 - 1:25 pm, Ziskind Living Room.
Interested in participating in Student Org next year? Don't know what Student Org is? Come get involved and find out more. Any questions, contact: Christie Schler, Student Org Secretary, at cschler@email.smith.edu.
Wednesday, August 13, 8:00 pm, Neilson Browsing Room.
Free to all, CDs available for sale.
Due to many students asking for another chance to see Kate play (she did an informal gig last year the last week of school), Kate has decided to do it more officially this time. But it will be just as informal.
Craig Harris from the Boston Globe says of Kate McDonnell,"Powerful on her own... arrangements are centered on McDonnnell's soaring soprano vocals, expressive acoustic guitar fingerpicking, and the rhythmic accompaniment... With her poetic songs... she shares that life with an unforgettable impact"
"McDonnell's voice is both delicate and powerful. As a writer she is more precocious than precious than pretentious. McDonnell scores more than a few winning turns of phrase and rarely settles for the easy rhyme... Its hard to imagine an eclectic original like herself being pushed in a direction she doesn't want to go. Things sound pretty good where she is."—Harp Magazine
"...The result is a lovely offering that isn't quite the coffeehouse folk you might anticipate, but isn't the slick, pre-packaged folk-pop that is saturating the market today either. ...might bring to mind Paula Cole or other Lilith Fair fodder... would fit somewhere between Sheryl Crow and Edie Brickell... almost spine-tingling at times... sounds a bit like Lucinda Williams's"Essence"... This is a record that is another step on what will continue to be a stairwell to critical acclaim. "--Pop Matters reviews
2005 marked the release of Kate's 4th solo CD on Appleseed Recordings (home to Tom Paxton, Donovan, Roger McGuinn, etc.), entitled "Where the Mangoes Are." The CD jumped to #2 in the FolkDJ charts for the month of January (before its release in February) and has stayed in the top 10 ever since). Many of the new songs, penned by Kate and her co-writer Anne Lindley, have won numerous honors and awards over the past few years. And her guitar playing is a quirk to behold: she taught herself to play at the age of 4, upside-down-and-backwards, and she continues to play that way, which gives Kate a unique guitar sound.
"Kate McDonnell's music has grace, intelligence, warmth, and more. Go see her!"--Tom Paxton
Thursday, August 14, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Dewey Common Room.
Do you struggle with anxiety? Anxious about your field placement? Interested in trying out a new theory that uses playwriting techniques to have a "conversation" with your anxiety? The Holistic Healing Group is sponsoring a workshop with Andrea Harbeck '09 that uses dialogue writing to overcome anxiety. No playwriting experience necessary. Bring a notebook. Contact Ashley at asitkin@email.smith.edu with any questions.
Tuesday, August 5 through Thursday, August 7, 10:00am -1:00pm, Campus Center.
There will be a food/school supplies drive to benefit school children in Holyoke and the Western Mass Food Bank. Drop by our table at the Campus Center and bring non-perishable food items and/or school supplies. Sponsored by the Social Welfare Action Alliance and the Jewish Students Alliance.
Mondays, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Cutter Head Resident Suite.
Come connect with other Jewish students and allies. JSA meetings and events are open to anyone interested in participating in or learning about Jewish religion and culture.
Mondays, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Cutter-Ziskind.
Come talk about fat acceptance and size-positivity here at Smith SSW. Look for signs regarding specific location. Please contact Polly with any questions: lhanson@smith.edu
Mondays, 5:30 - 7:00 pm, Ziskind Head Resident Suite.
Opportunities for hope beyond stigma and social inequality. Read our mission statement here.
Mondays, 5:30 - 7:00 pm, Ziskind Living Room, Tuesdays, 12:30 pm, outside the Ziskind Living Room.
The Smith College SSW Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning Alliance holds two weekly meetings open to LGBTQQ students, staff, and faculty and their allies. The Monday evening meetings are a time for community building, support, and discussions about issues related to LGBTQQ identity and intersecting issues. The Task Force group meets on Tuesdays to plan social action and events in and around the Smith Community. Please join us!
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7:30 - 8:00 am, Wednesdays 5:40 - 6:15 pm, Chase House Living Room.
We are a non-denominational group that meets to practice mindfulness-awareness meditation together. Please join us! If you have any questions, would like to be added to our email list, or would like meditation instruction, please email Simone at: simonelichty@gmail.com.
Tuesdays, 12:30-1:30 pm, Ziskind Beau Parlor.
If you are responsible for children during your time at Smith SSW, join us for lunch to chat and eat.
Tuesdays, 5:30 - 7:00 pm, Ziskind Living Room.
The ARTF is composed of faculty, students and other members of the SSW community. The purpose of the ARTF is to propose initiatives and take action to further the anti-racism mission of the SSW. This includes, but is not limited to, campus-wide activities, exhibits, awareness-raising, training, dialogues and coalition building. The group is open to all members of the Smith community and works with other organizations on campus to coordinate anti-racism initiatives. Fred Newdom, Joan Lesser and Josh Miller are the faculty conveners, but leadership of the ARTF is shared with students. This is an open group and all are welcome to attend.
Tuesdays, 5:30 pm, Cutter Beau Parlor.
Please join the Students Aging Gracefully through Education for relaxing, informative, witty, wise conversation and support.
Tuesdays, July 29, August 5 and August 12, 7:00 - 9:00 pm.
Note: Room change to Seelye 110
This year, pedagogy and diversity will offer some didactic content as well as providing the usual space to process what is going on in the classroom. Some of the possible areas of discussion are working with social identity in the classroom, microaggressions and how to respond to them, managing intragroup processes, use of self to further issues of diversity and ways of centralizing issues of diversity in all classes. Participants and the facilitators will together determine which topics will be covered. The series will build on this year's Spring Faculty Meeting and the on-line course offered about successful teaching at an anti-racism school for social work, although it is not necessary to have participated in these events. The second semester seminars will be taught by Dr. Joshua Miller and Senior Bertha Reynolds Fellow Dr. Ann Marie Garran.
Wednesdays, 5:30 - 7:00 pm, Ziskind Living Room.
A gathering for all students, faculty and staff of color.
Thursdays, 12:30 pm, Ziskind Head Resident Suite.
The Social Welfare Action Alliance, or SWAA, is a group of excitable and passionate folks who want to organize for social justice and change in the world outside of Smith. If you're interested, come and check us out! (No activist or organizing experience needed - Just bring yourself!)
Thursdays, 12:30 pm, Cutter Lobby.
Are you interested in exploring alternative ways of healing? Maybe you’re a healer yourself or looking to gain new skills? Come join the new Holistic Healing Group as we explore holistic healing and ways we can integrate it into clinical social work practice. We’re an open group looking for passionate students who are committed to embracing healing in all of its forms.
We’re looking for a core group of students to join the Holistic Healing Council and help develop the group’s mission and goals for the summer. We’re also seeking students with specific skills who want to facilitate Experiential Healing Groups (no need to be an expert). These separate, practice-oriented groups will give students an opportunity to learn about different holistic healing modalities and how to put them into action. Contact Ashley at asitkin@email.smith.edu with any questions.
Thursdays, 5:45 - 7:00 pm, Ziskind Beau Parlor.
Join us, Tuesdays at dinner, for the Unlearning Racism Group. Bring your dinner– and it’s OK to be late! The Unlearning Racism Group is an informal student group where we come willing to listen to any story, testimony, trouble or concern about racism, white privilege or racial identity development. As we speak and hear about what is difficult, painful, hidden, or challenging today with regards to racism, we have the potential to take the next step towards unlearning racism. All students are welcome.
Thursdays, 7:00 - 8:00 pm, Bodman Lounge,
Helen Hills Chapel basement (Enter rear doors off Chapel parking lot from 6:30 pm).
Enrich spiritually with a nourishing dimension of Being. Give heartfelt meaning and noble purpose to life. Experience the true nature of energetic reality. Speed your evolution. Drink directly from the source of universal harmony. Learn to access and develop powerful natural gifts. Join Donald Andrew as he shares 45 years of multi-sourced consciousness creation distilled from initiation into and or practiced of many meditation traditions and spiritual systems on four continents. First-timers please email dandrew@email.smith.edu.
Thursdays, 7:30 - 9:00 pm, Seelye 102.
A 5-week Seminar Forming a Learning Community to Explore Research in the United States and Internationally Facilitated by: Dr. Joanne Corbin and Dr. Andrew Jilani
In the second term this seminar will explore challenges and opportunities of conducting research. It is not a regular class but an opportunity both for students and the faculty to come together and form a learning community and reflect and learn from each other’s prior research experience or their current research work. In our first session we will assess our needs and interests around research. Topics may include forming research questions, design, methodology and field challenges in conducting research both in the United States and overseas. We may also explore different research paradigms and explore challenges and strategies of conducting research in individualist and collectivist societies. There will be opportunities for participants to share their current or past research and seek feed back from others. We anticipate a vibrant learning community and encourage you to participate. If you have questions, please email; Dr. Joanne Corbin jcorbin@email.smith.edu or Dr. Andrew Jilani ajilani@email.smith.edu
Thursdays, 8:00 - 9:00 pm, Berenson Dance Studio 2.
Come learn salsa in a relaxed and friendly environment. No partner or previous experience required.
Thursdays, 8:00 - 9:30 pm and Saturdays, 10:00 - 11:30 am, Davis Ballroom.
Come play Capoeira Angola, an Afro-Brazilian martial art form incorporating music, movement, and social consciousness. As in the beginning of any journey, no experience is necessary!!! Please come dressed comfortably in a t-shirt, pants, and shoes. YouTube "Capoeira Angola Ypirangha de Pastinha" if you're curious. See you there when you're ready. All student, faculty, staff and community members are welcome.
Thursdays, 9:00 pm, Chase House Piano Living Room.
No agenda, just men- talking, listening, and supporting one another. All SSW men (msw, phd, faculty and staff) are invited and welcome.
Sundays, 5:15 pm, Chase Living Room.
Come to unwind from the week and weekend, and get ready for the upcoming week. Please bring your own mat or a towel if you don't own a mat. Contact zperry@email.smith.edu if you have any questions.
Attention All Students:
Course evaluations are required. Your grades and transcripts will be held until you complete this requirement for each course in both terms. Course Evaluations will be available on BannerWeb beginning Wednesday, August 6th at 8:00 am, and must be completed by Wednesday, August 13th at 11:00 pm. Additional information and instructions have been sent to you via your Smith email account. If you have questions, please contact Valerie Abrahamsen, Registrar and Director of Academic Support Services at vabraham@email.smith.edu. To get a head start, you can preview the evaluation form here.
Final Summer Students: Your 5 free tickets to the reception following graduation have been put in your campus mailboxes. Please do not lose or pack these away as we are not able to give you replacements for these. If you need to purchase more tickets you may do so for $10.00 at the Main Reception Desk in Lilly Hall.
This is to remind you that ALL rooms must be vacated by 12 noon on Saturday, August 16. NO EXCEPTIONS can be made as undergraduate Residential Life students start arriving later that day. Seniors who are renting dorm rooms for family and friends are responsible for making sure your guests are aware of this and make their travel plans accordingly.
Key return envelopes will be in your mailboxes on Monday, August 11th. Key return boxes will be centrally located on the first floor of each dorm and in the reception area of Lilly Hall.
Please clean out your mailbox and return your postal key to the Student Postal Center by 4:00 pm on Friday, August 15. Please do not include postal key in dorm key envelopes.
The Writing Counselors, Debra Carney and Mary Koncel, will be working through August 13. There will be no Writing Counseling on August 14 or 15.
Thank you!
Final summer students exit interview materials are at the campus mailboxes for you to pick up. Notices are in your campus boxes to pick up your packets. Please follow the directions and return the proper signed copies to the SSW Financial Aid Office in Lilly Hall. This is a requirement to graduate and receive your diploma. You will not be able to graduate until this is done.
Thank you, Gina Zaikowski.
A Few End-Of-The-Summer Details.
If you have borrowed your own thesis to give to a second reader or moderator, please return it to Laurie Wyman as soon as possible (unless you have made prior arrangements with her). It is important that all theses are accounted for prior to the end of the program.
A copy will be available for you to pick up starting Wednesday, August 6th. In the envelope containing your thesis will be the evaluation your advisor completed. A Copy of that evaluation will be placed in your permanent file here at Smith. The copy on acid-free paper will be sent to Neilson Library for binding and cataloguing. The second copy you submitted will remain here in Lilly Hall for students and others to read over the winter. Your abstract will be published in an upcoming issue of the Smith Studies in Social Work. Thanks Everyone and All the Best as You Wrap Up!
We thought it would be nice to have a yearbook for the A'09 class when we graduate next year. Now we are looking for some people to head up the project! We have preliminary information and ideas that would keep the work down to a minimum. If this sounds like a good idea to you, please volunteer to help! Once established, the yearbook committee will decide together how it wants to proceed.
For more information contact Emy at efehmi@email.smith.edu.
If you have benefited from the amazing generosity and knowledge offered by the reference librarians at Neilson Library at any point during your time here at Smith (or away on placement during your thesis research), and you want to be part of an ongoing gift to them and the reference room space, I am putting together a monetary donation for large indoor plants. If you can donate anything from $2 - $5, we, as the ’08 SSW class, could add a little life to the reference room, the librarians, and to future students.
If you are interested, I am taking monies through the last Monday of the term, August 11th. If you have any large indoor plants you would like to donate to the cause, that would be great as well. Feel free to email me, Anastasia McRae, at amcrae@email.smith.edu with any questions or to arrange a meeting time.
Please remember that space requests should be submitted electronically; this helps ensure that details are filed correctly.
Senior Bertha Reynolds Fellow Dr. Sarita Bhalotra will hold scheduled office
hours in Wright Hall 105 (see below) and by appointment. (Please contact her via email at sbhalotr@email.smith.edu or by phone: (508) 982-6619 to schedule an appointment). Dr. Bhalotra invites students, staff and faculty to contact her for discussions pertaining to research, issues, or concerns about race, gender, and class. Scheduled office hours:
Thursday, August 7, 2:00 - 3:30 pm
Friday, August 8, 2:00 - 3:30 pm
Thursday, August 14, 1:30 - 3:30 pm
For those of us who are planning to disseminate our theses by colloquiums, and actually want to be able to check when other folks' colloquiums are when we schedule our own, SSW has agreed to let us post our colloquium information on the online calendar of summer events. The calendar is accessible through a direct link on Luncheon Notices or by clicking here: http://www.smith.edu/ssw/admin/summer_2008.php. Check the calendar when you schedule your event in order to make sure you don't schedule yourself for the same time as your friend whose colloquium you promised to attend (if you can help it)! When you've reserved a room (which you do by contacting Michele Bala for Cutter Ziskind or Tonya Dixon for all other reservations), email Luncheon Notices your event information and it will be posted in both the online Summer Calendar and Luncheon Notices.
Lindsay D.
Minutes for the Student Org Meeting on 8/6/08 are now online.
Here is a calendar of SSW events this summer. Please check this calendar for periodic updates.
This year the Joan Laird Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered Thesis Prize for 2008 is awarded to Molly Thomas. Her thesis is entitled: “Shades of Gray: Lesbian Therapists Explore the Complexities of Self Disclosure to Heterosexual Clients.” The committee appreciated all of the theses submitted, recognizes the importance of their topics, and learned from all of them. Though the decision was a hard one, Molly’s thesis was selected because she honored so well the complexity of the topic and her writing expressed so well the nuanced responses of her subjects. Congratulations Molly!
We have a black laptop bag that says George Warren Brown School of Social Work on it, three pairs of glasses, one in a pink paisley case, and a black sports watch all found on the porch of Sessions Annex, and small gold heart locket with two pictures inside and the engraving on the back says "Love David 12-24-81". We have a beige suitcase full of childrens books, a cream hoodie found in seelye, and a green cap from St. Martin. These items can be found in SSW main office.
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